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Year Date Distance Pilot Aircraft Notes 2006: February 8–12, 2006: 41,467.46 km: Steve Fossett: GlobalFlyer: Single pilot (Steve Fossett) flight. [1] [2] 1986: December 14–23, 1986: 40,212.14 km: Richard Glenn Rutan and Jeana Yeager: Rutan Voyager: Circumnavigation. Fédération Aéronautique Internationale record holder up to 2006 (current ...
Year Airspeed Range Ceiling T/O Weight Engine power 1905 60.91 km/h (37.85 mph) USA Wilbur Wright Flyer III October 5, 1905 38.95 km (24.2 miles) USA Wilbur Wright Flyer III October 5, 1905 15 m (50 ft) USA Wilbur Wright Flyer III September 28, 1905 388 kg (855 lb) USA Wright Brothers Flyer III 37 kW (50 hp) France Léon Levavasseur Antoinette 1907
[12] [13] He broke skydiving records for exit altitude, vertical freefall distance without a drogue parachute, and vertical speed without a drogue. Though he still holds the two latter records, the first was broken two years later, when on 24 October 2014, Alan Eustace jumped from 135,890 feet (41.42 km; 25.74 mi) with a drogue. [14] [15] [16]
The balloon rose at a speed of 250 metres per minute (820 ft/min) and reached an altitude of 53.7 km (176,000 ft), surpassing the previous world record set in 2002 [10] This was the greatest height a flying object reached without using rockets or a launch with a cannon.
The barograph aboard the plane showed he had reached a height of 11,642 feet (3,548 m), a world record for altitude. [ 10 ] [ 1 ] : 74–87 In 1912, Beachey, Parmelee, and aviation pioneer Glenn Martin performed the first night flights in California with acetylene burners, fuses, and small noise making bombs dropped over Los Angeles. [ 11 ]
Bridgeman, Leonard Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1948. MacMillan, 1948. Bridgeman, Leonard Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1959–60. Sampson, Low, Marston and Company, 1959. Fillingham, Paul Basic Guide to Flying. New York: Hawthorn, 1975. ISBN 0-801-50525-9; Jackson, Paul Janes All the Worlds Aircraft 2004–05, Janes Publishing Company, 2004.
On 9 August 2007, F-OIQI was the aircraft operating the short route as Flight QE 1121. [1]: 11 At 12:00:06 local time (22:00:06 UTC), the air traffic controller cleared the aircraft for takeoff, and six seconds later, the aircraft began its takeoff roll. As is normal procedure for takeoffs, the pilot retracted the aircraft’s flaps after ...
This distance set a new record for the longest aircraft flight in history, breaking the old records of 24,987 miles (40,213 km) in an airplane and 25,360 miles (40,810 km) in a balloon. The landing was made at Bournemouth Airport, England (short of the planned destination at Kent), because of a generator failure at 40,000 feet (12,000 m ...